Renaissance innovations in education and culture reshaped societal power dynamics and continue to influence modern thought.

Six hundred years ago, on the 20th of July, 1304, a little Florentine baby was born into exile in a house on Via deli’ Orto in Arezzo, whither his father, banished from Florence, had fled. Civil war ...

Of all the world's great writers, Petrarch is the best known for losing his head. On Good Friday in 1327, the then 23-year-old writer and scholar fell madly - and forlornly - in love with a woman he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Canzoniere: 'Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war' - INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo Today marks the 650th ...

IT is a long time since Lessing refuted the forgotten critic who maintained that good poetry must furnish good subjects for illustration; and the principle laid down in the Laocoön, to the effect that ...

Petrarch the Tuscan love poet may be the most enduring image of a writer who has been credited with initiating the Italian Renaissance. But Petrarch was also a classicist, collecting and transmitting ...

Of all the world’s great writers, Petrarch is the best known for losing his head. On Good Friday in 1327, the then 23-year-old writer and scholar fell madly — and forlornly — in love with a woman he ...

Franz Liszt had his share of love affairs, and also his share of heartbreaks. Perhaps that's what drew him to the work of Petrarch, and his many sonnets about love. From a recital at the 2006 Aspen ...

H an kins’s work is bookended by two Florentines: Petrarch (1304–74), whose rediscovery of Cicero helped inaugurate Italian Renaissance humanism, and Machiavelli (1460–1527), whose political thought, ...